Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo? Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo?
More than 5 million have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and violence against women is so common that it's been called femicide-genocide. What can we here in the U...
Oct 21, 2009 / GRITtv
A Witness to Total War A Witness to Total War
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the only neutral filmmaker in the country was Julien Bryan. His round-the-clock footage of Warsaw's destruction, assembled in Siege, is now aga...
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Eagan
Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World
Will today's US-armed ally be tomorrow's enemy?
Oct 19, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
‘War on Terror’ II ‘War on Terror’ II
Obama makes reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then adopts whatever appalling policy Bush put in place.
Oct 19, 2009 / Feature / Julian Sanchez
Children of the Occupation Children of the Occupation
Hundreds of Palestinian children are imprisoned in Israeli jails every year. Their story, overlooked in recent media reports, tells the true cost of the occupation.
Oct 15, 2009 / Feature / Andrea D’Cruz
Kilcullen’s Long War Kilcullen’s Long War
An influential Pentagon strategist advocates a fifty-year counterinsurgency campaign.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran
Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Helena Cobban
American Jews Rethink Israel American Jews Rethink Israel
The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.
Oct 14, 2009 / Feature / Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss
The ACORN Standard The ACORN Standard
A growing number of lawmakers are starting to ask: if ACORN's federal funding should be under intense scrutiny, why aren't the billions of dollars going to out-of-control contracto...
Oct 14, 2009 / Jeremy Scahill
Obama’s Nobel Obama’s Nobel
Did the president deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize? No, of course not. But he still has a chance to earn it.
Oct 14, 2009 / The Editors